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Exchange 2003/2010 cross forest routing problem solved

For a customer I ran into a strange problem. While doing a cross forest mailbox migration I noticed that mails were queuing up and were not delivered. It took some troubleshooting untill I found the solution. First I noticed that newly created users received email for several domains without any problems. Migrated users didn’t receive […]

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Exchange 2010 move database error WMI exception occurred..

Today I tried to move a database to a different drive and I ran into the following problem : After some investigation I noticed a large amount of log files. After enabling circular logging and dismount and mounting the database everything went fine! Disable circular logging afterwards and make sure your backup solution is running […]

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Howto : Split SMTP domain Exchange 2003 and … (2010, Zimbra etc)

This is how to create a split SMTP domain using Exchange 2003 and another SMTP program like Exchange, Zimbra or something like that. Step 1. Make sure you’re MX-record is already point to your Exchange 2003 mailserver and that part is working. Step 2. Add the new domain name to the Recipient Policies:   Make […]

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How to use EMC to migrate mailboxes from Exchange on premises to Office365 and vice versa

In my previous post you can read how easily it is to use the EMC to administer your Office365 account. Now you can imagine how easily it could be to migrate Exchange mailboxes from your on premises Exchange Server to Office365 or the other way around! This is how you can do that : First […]

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How to use the EMC to administrate Office365

Nowadays more and more people are migrating from Exchange to Office365/Exchange Online or are using a Hybrid solution. Many people don’t know that they can use the Exchange 2010 Management Console to control their Office365 settings and users. This is how you can link your Office365 environment to the EMC. First download and install EMC, […]

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Exchange set external/internal URL’s

When configuring Exchange it’s important to have your external and internal url’s correctly configured. Otherwise you are running into errors like those : Configuring those url’s isn’t that difficult, you just want to make sure you configure all the URL’s and have an appopiate SSL cert. After importing the right SSL you can use a […]

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Insufficient Access Rights to Perform the Operation (Exchange 2010)

While moving some mailboxes I got the following error :

I found out the error was because inheritable permissions was not turned on for this specific user. (In this case this user was a member of the domain admin usergroup). This is how you can fix this problem : Open dsa.msc (make sure advanced […]

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Exchange & Outlook Certificate errors.. (solved)

Today I was testing Outlook with a new Exchange server config and I received the following error : I knew I correctly imported the new SSL certifcate because I tested OWA before Outlook and that was working fine. The solution was simple. You must specify in Exchange which Exchange services  (for example SMTP, IIS, POP, […]

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Create Exchange 2010 CAS (NLB) Cluster

Today I installed a Exchange 2010 CAS cluster using (Windows) NLB. After some final preparation I followed Microsoft best practices for creating a CAS cluster. (Microsoft recommends creating a CAS cluster also when you’re only using one CAS cluster). This is how you can do that :

Exchange asked for your site name, you […]

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How to synchronize Public Folders (Exchange 2007/2010)

When migrating to a new (version of) Exchange this is how you can synchronize the Public Folders : Start the exchange management shell and execute the following code :

You should be able to do this using the Exchange Management Console but this often doesn’t work. After executing the above script you should be […]

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Exchange 2010 Disable open-relay

You can easily check if you have an open relay with websites like http://www.mxtoolbox.com/, https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com and http://www.checkor.com/ When you found out that they say that you have an open relay you can double check that with the following command :

Then use the following command to close the anonymous relay :  

Then […]

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Error upgrading Exchange 2010 SP2 ‘TevoSource’

Today I ran into some problems while upgrading Exchange 2010 SP 1 multi tenant to SP 2. The error was “Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the TevoSource <> process has open files. After some investigating I found that the Appasure Replay agent was causing some interference. Stopping the service (and killing the proces […]

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